Hi friends. Welcome to Walking is Fitness, the podcast. I'm Dave. A couple of things going on this morning.

Actually, one really huge thing going on later today. Our son, Aaron, is getting married to his

fiancé Maria. They've been together for years.

Eva is in the Navy stationed in San Diego.

And his fiance is in school, working towards her our end degree,

and she lives and goes to school in Las Vegas, which leads me to the second thing.

That's where I am this morning.

I am in Las Vegas at the moment.

I am walking along the Strip, Las Vegas Boulevard.

I'm heading, I guess I'm heading south because I'm looking at Caesar's Palace, which is still probably about a mile away.

And at the moment, I'm walking past Resorts World Hilton, and that's what this music is.

So normally, this podcast is all about turning your walking into exercise, creating an exercise habit, a fitness habit, which once that's done then becomes fitness momentum.

And that's a beautiful thing.

Talked about that the last couple of weeks.

And the fitness momentum eventually becomes

fitness transformation. So that tends to be the focus. This week, not so much other than the

fact that I just mentioned it. This week I want to talk about walking is fun. Yes, walking is fitness, but walking is also fun. It's great fun.

One of the things that I love about walking is what I call urban exploration.

I have the opportunity over the last decade to visit quite a few big cities and every opportunity I get in the morning,

I will get up early, which is something I do anyhow, and head out and go for a walk and explore

the city.

When we lived in Maryland, I was about an hour away from Washington, D.C., at least one some month.

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